Advent Videobeam

[Rob]

Originally posted by captainmoody
I wouldn't say that Rob, About a year ago I sold one of my Advent videobeam projectors to a collector in California for 250.00! Sold the screen to another collector in Chicago for 100.00. There is a following for these units. The ones I have seem to be quite reliable too. All have good crt's, Only one needed some caps changed to be useable again after long storage.

Cap'n,

I guess it is a matter of what you are used to. As I said, I owned two of those and have owned and technically maintained and operated many others far more powerful and valuable because I worked in the pro events-projection market off and on for years. I even owned and restored the all-vacuum-tube, 3-light valve EP-6 color Eidophor that was bought new for the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, and I even did the 1993 CBC Gemini Awards show in Toronto with it. After all my hard work and expense restoring it I saw that machine scrapped because I just could no longer afford the heated dry storage it needed. With two power supply cabinets and road parts case it took up as much room as a full size Elvis Presley car, and weighed almost as much. This was before ebay and the internet so now I am kinda sorry I couldn't keep it until now, it was a true museum piece and was just s/n 00011, but you can't keep everything and if you were to see my place now you'd see proof that I still try! I wouldn't give you $25 CDN for a working Videobeam 1000A today. I cannot spare the storage space for something I'd never have any interest in looking at. I'm wanting to sell the remaining Eidphors that I still do have. I could use the room.

That is just my particular unique situation. If a Advent 1000A or anything else for that matter floats your boat, estimate the $ value to your own thrill level.

Rob